Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" received 12 Oscar nominations, the most of any film, in the Academy Award nominations announced Thursday morning.

"Beasts of the Southern Wild," whose executive producer, Michael Raisler, is from Wauwatosa, was nominated for best film.

The 9-year-old star of "Beasts," Quvenzhane Wallis, is the youngest best actress nominee ever. She shares the category with Emmanuelle Riva, of "Amour," who is the oldest best actress nominee. Riva turns 86 on Feb. 24, the same date as the Oscar telecast.

Wallis was one of two actors of color to be nominated. The other was Denzel Washington, nominated for best actor for "Flight."

"Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God," about sexual abuse by the clergy at St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis, had been mentioned as a possible nominee for best documentary but was overlooked.

The biggest Oscar snub may have been for Kathryn Bigelow, director of best picture nominee "Zero Dark Thirty." The film opens in Milwaukee Friday.

Also overlooked: Ben Affleck, as director of best picture nominee "Argo"; Tom Hooper, as director of best picture nominee "Les Miserables"; actor John Hawkes, for "The Sessions"; actress Marion Cotillard for "Rust and Bone"; actors Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren for "Hitchcock"; "The Intouchables," for foreign-language film; actor Bill Murray for "Hyde Park on Hudson"; actor Javier Bardem, for "Skyfall"; actor Matthew McConaughey, for "Magic Mike"; and Maggie Smith for "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel."